TwitchCon cosplay contest finalists.
TwitchCon cosplay contest finalists in 2018.
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TwitchCon’s craziest cosplay creations show how dedicated gamers can be

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Cosplay, or costume play where people dress up as their favorite game characters, isn’t quite a sport yet. But it’s certainly a form of art, as shown by the entrants in the cosplay contest for the TwitchCon 2018 streamers event in San Jose, California. The finalists put hundreds of hours of work into their creations.

Casey Renee of Casey Renee Cosplay won the categories for the best needlework and best overall cosplay at the event, and she spent more than 550 hours patterning, sewing, and adding details to the Amethyst by the artist Sakizou. For that dedication, she walked away with the $15,000 grand prize.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.